Every day I watch the Canadian media and they report Covid statistics while providing ZERO context. Literally none at all! The reported numbers are meaningless without more information given.
For example, "daily cases" is a big narrative they push. They try to drudge up fear by ominously stressing the "growing daily cases". But they don't tell you anything more. There's no information given regarding the severity of the cases. They don't specify whether they're false positives, asymptomatic cases, the sniffles, light fever ETC. 99% of the cases could be no worse than a cold for all we know, but they make it a point to withhold that data. And trust me folks, you can be sure if the majority of cases WERE horrible and scary, they'd be drumming that point up to no end, but they're not, because they aren't.
The ONE piece of information they do disclose is the number of "hospitalizations", but that's another completely meaningless detail without further context provided. It could be a 90 year old already on deaths doorstep who was moved to a hospital after getting covid (it is a fact that most of the hospitalizations come from people in nursing homes... but they rarely mention that), could be a cancer patient, someone who's morbidly obese ETC. But it's a concerted tactic to withhold that information as it doesn't serve their narrative.
And of course they like to focus on sensationalizing the death numbers, and again, for reasons stated above, is pointless without further data and context. No data on the age of the people dying, whether the people dying had comorbidities ETC... Absolutely nothing. And if some boozer pushing 50 dies with it, you'll hear about it NONSTOP, but again no details of comorbidities, substance absuse ETC. Just fearporn, fearporn, fearporn.
It's simply just propaganda and fear mongering. The media is shameless and works in lockstep with the government and is in on the agenda. If they were really concerned about informing our populace about a pandemic threat, they'd provide these essential details, but they purposely obfuscate and withhold this information.
The fear mongering is par for the course for media. Once I heard a story from them about how there had been a massive increase in murders in the city from the year before. They didn't report that the previous year had been the lowest in decades and that the current year was on track to be around the third lowest. I also saw stories about how knife murders were at a decade high while ignoring that murders by all weapons were average. The media always chooses the stat and frame of reference that paints the most dire possible scenerio.
Deaths no good? Choose test results.
Test results for the today are improving over the last few days? Compare that to summer when things were low.
Sweden has COVID cases that are well within the normal boundaries for a developed nation? Compare them instead to neighbours that have lower numbers.
No matter what's going on you can fabricate a way to turn any issue into a crisis by selecting the right basis of comparison.